Tell Us About Your Berry Alias!

Linda and I were talking about our beloved Berries the other day, naturally calling people by their Berry names since for the most part we don’t know their real names, when suddenly dawn broke.

Hey!, we thought. Here we are, a name site, with lots of regular visitors who are fascinated by names and think and know a lot about the subject, and yet they’re known by names they’ve invented for themselves. So where did those names come from?

That started us thinking about how the internet had given rise to a whole new era of self-naming and name invention as well as reinvention, giving us all the opportunity to devise new names for ourselves via our email addresses, our screen aliases, our Twitter handles, the Facebook middle names and respellings meant to throw school administrators and prospective employers off the track…..

We wondered if the web’s demand that we rename ourselves might be making people more interested in names in general and also more open to non-traditional names such as word names, color names, animal names, invented names and yooneek spellings. If you’re an academic onomast looking for a subject for your Ph.D. thesis, that might be a good topic; please let us know your findings.

Meanwhile, closer to home and real life, we wondered how and why all of you chose the names you use on Nameberry. Some of you may not be willing to share the secret meaning and codes embedded in your Berry aliases, but if you are, we’d love to hear it.

We’re also aware that some of you chose Berry names on the fly and now would love to change them, though our system (ironically enough) does not make that easy. So tell us about that too!

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GigiGibbons Says:

Gibbons is my married name, but Gigi was a nickname given to me at a former workplace. It was family owned, and the family was of Arabic descent. My name is Jane, and it’s pretty basic but one of the wives there had a hard time pronouncing it. “Zsa..Juh.. Gi.. Oh I just call you Gigi.” They still call me by that whenever we meet in the odd place.

The name never caught on with my family, and now I have a little cousin with the same nickname. But if I were to change my name legally (and haven’t we all fantasized about the same notion?) it would be Gigi Gibbons.

Claredelune Says:

Good post idea! Clare is my almost-name, one I think would suit me much more than actual name: Taylor. My parents went for a family surname thinking it would be highly unique–not so! Though a wee bit ahead of the curve in the late 80’s.

As for the rest of the alias: beautiful music by one of my favorite composers. 🙂 (Sigh–so many positive cultural associations. I still feel a little wistful.)

Worchazer Says:

My screen name should have been Wordchazer, but I mis-typed it so we have Worchazer instead (and I can’t change it…grrr). I’m a freelance editor and proofreader (a chaser of words) who obviously registered on an off day. Explains why I always read everything through twice when I’m editing.

mrssarasmith Says:

I go by my real name on this site but I use Satine as an alias a lot! It fits because my maiden initials are S.A.T. and I love Moulin Rouge! I also think Satine is a gorgeous name. It’s on my guilty pleasure list : )

TheFutureMrsB Says:

My screenname came from my boyfriend/fiance. I was supposed to be meeting his uncle and cousins a few days after we got engaged but we weren’t telling anyone we were.
The night before I met them he said he wished he could introduce me as the next Mrs. Baker. Since we have almost 2 & 1/2 years til our wedding in the future I’ll be Mrs. Baker, hence thefuturemrsb.

xiabelle Says:

Xiabelle is a name I’ve used on the internet for probably close to 20 years! It has no real meaning, but was inspired by the naming conventions for the dryads in David Eddings’ books, which I happened to be reading when I made it up. Their names start with X and I thought ‘I like dryads’ and I thought it had a pretty sound, so there you go.

Mego0801 Says:

I *always* wanted a cool nn to go by, so Junior year in High School when a few friends started calling me ‘Mego’, I seriously encouraged it lol 🙂 My birthday is August First, so Mego0801, I’ve been using it everywhere since HS. Love reading about everyone else’s name! 🙂

aunt_ning Says:

Mine is actually very simple. I am an aunt, and when I was choosing a new email address my niece was a baby and learning to talk and Jeannie came out Ning Ning for some reason, and then a friend mentioned to me that Ning Ning is essentially Chinese for Jeannie so Aunt_Ning I became, so Aunt Jeannie is my name and my alias lol.
No clue how she got Ning Ning from jeannie though, the other kiddos at the time always called me NeNe, and then my littlest nephew now calls me GG,

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isabel_r Says:

haha well my name’s isabel and my last name begins with an r. boring, right? I got the idea from school, where, since pre-k, our internet usernames have been First initial_lastname, but I did the opposite because of internet safety and all.

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chicamerlin Says:

My pets are my kids right now (lol), so I took my dog’s name (Chica) and my cat’s name (Merlin) and put them together. I made this account in somewhat of a hurry so it was the only thing I could think of at the time!

babiesK Says:

Alas, mine is rather boring as well. My last name begins with
K and I first came here for help naming babies! We’re done now, but nameberry definitely helped solidify two of our children’s names and spellings (it wasn’t around for the first). Now I come back because it’s hard to quit!

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peach25 Says:

Love peaches,and it’s the name of my cat (the Giant Peach). I’m also an older berry, as evidenced by my given name, Nancy, which was going around like the flu in the 50s-60s. My pal growing up was Nancy, who became Nanci, and my college roommate was also Nancy. We still call each other by our last names, or silly “Russian” nicknames — Natasha and Sonya — from when we were reading Russian lit.

Saranel Says:

My name is Sarah. I am a huge fan of Tolkien and his various created languages. Sarah means princess and the elven equivalent is Aranel. The two names with the same meaning seemed to flow very well into each other so Saranel I became.

labmama Says:

I have loved reading everyone’s responses here! I chose Labmama for a few reasons:

-I’m a mama-when I joined, I had one daughter; now I have two.
-I work in a lab as a Medical Lab Technologist.
-I grew up in a beautiful part of the world, called Labrador, although I’m not there right now. We call it The Big Land, and I’d encourage everyone to at least google it!

TinaBina Says:

Well, my name is Tina so by no choice of my own 80% of the people I meet that are 10 years older than me or more feel the need to sing me ‘Tina bina bo bina etc”. Ya, because before you said it doubt anyone has every thought of that. Original lol. Anyways I was running out of options for “names” on sites and hate to throw random numbers in, so since my last name initial is B now, I figured why the heck not.

trich323 Says:

I usually use Arduinna as a screen name. I have a Dictionary of Celtic Mythology that I used to read when I was a teenager, and I always liked the idea of a goddess of boars!

I think the name was taken when I created an account, and I was in a hurry to create an account an post on something so I just picked something thinking I would be able to put more thought into it later (oops). Trich is basically a JLo-ization of my real name. Yawn.

Auntie_A Says:

Well, I’m an aunt & my first name starts with an A. I actually hate being called auntie but it sounded better than just aunt a. I also thought of using “double A” (for aunt + {my name}) because that’s what I first wanted my niece to call me…it never caught on though. 🙂

eechick Says:

I would change mine if I could. This was the first site not school related that I got a username for, so I wasn’t very creative with it. eechick was my middle school IM name. E is the first letter of my first name, and chick was a name I was called by our neighbors when I was a toddler.

encore Says:

“Encore” is kind of a personal thing from my childhood. It’s not a nickname for me or anyone else, just something close to my heart when I made this account. But since then the people associated with this word have made me realize why I am no longer in contact with them. So it’s kind of a bad thing for me now.

My real name is Erica. I would probably just use that if I could change it.

JessicaT11 Says:

My whole life I’ve been referred to as Jessica T. Its funny that most people on here would rather loose an arm than pick a name for their child that might get them referred to as “First name Last initial”, but I embraced it for myself. I guess I’m not very creative when it comes to my own identity.
The number 11 has a special meaning I’d rather not share.

sillysheila Says:

My username is a nickname my husband has for me. I call him Silly Billy, he calls me Silly Sheila. We’ve each said that we are at our happiest when we can make the other laugh, so we act rather silly sometimes. These nicknames have no bearing on our actual given names. We actually have several nicknames for each other, our daughter, and even our dog. I adore nicknames. They allude to a sense of familiarity and friendship. They are almost secret names, a gift we give our best friends, dear family, and closest confidantes. It’s a way to show our love and fondness.

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Whirligig Says:

My username is the name of my first boat. I used it for everything. But if I had the opportunity to change it then I would be radicaldaisy. This is after the felt daisy I illegally sewed onto my school blazer. It has become my symbol of rebellion and my right to be unique.

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maggiemary Says:

Well my name first name + middle name is Margaret Mary and I mainly go by Maggie, so maggiemary it was. I figured that there must be THOUSANDS of Margaret Mary’s in the world, so it’s not like my user name can identify me!

capturedcastle Says:

Inspired by the book I Capture The Castle (my dad says the main character reminds him of me), and St. Teresa of Avila’s “Interior Castle”. Castles within and without, fortresses of isolation or introspection.

ClaireDarling Says:

Well, my first name is Claire, and Darling is for the surname of Wendy, Michael, and John in the stories about Peter Pan. I have always been enamored with Pan, and use darling on my twitter account as well.

Saracita00 Says:

Saracita is a pet name my grandfather made up when I was just a tiny girl. It was a play on words using Spanish, English, and my given name; he told me it meant, “my little Sarah,” or “little sweet Sarah.” I credit him for most of my name-nerd and word-geek tendencies!

00 is for 2000, the year I was married.

GoodHope Says:

I wanted a username that didn’t incorporate my real name, any numbers, and wasn’t recycled from another site. While I was pondering, my son was playing with his globe–spinning it, putting his finger down, and asking me questions about wherever it landed. He ended up on South Africa at just the right moment, and the Cape of Good Hope caught my eye.

Considering it was chosen on the fly, I really, really like it. I love that it sounds upbeat and positive.

I sometimes wonder if everyone thinks my name is Hope! It’s lovely, though, so I could hardly complain.

BritishAmerican Says:

I’m British because I was born and grew up in England.
I’m American because my husband of 11 years is American and we live in the US. So I became a naturalized US citizen in 2006.
Hence BritishAmerican. 🙂

I like the username because it doesn’t use my real name, though I’ve mentioned my name on all the names sites I visit anyway! Plus the name is usually not already taken as a username.

madellanlove Says:

My username happened when I was teaching at a daycare one year. My name is Madeleine, and one of the kids always pronounced it Madellan (stress on the second syllable). I decided I liked it, and so it became my username on this site!

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Supermomwannabe Says:

I was a single mom for about 3 years and decided that I needed super powers, you know like x-ray vision and stretch arms and things like that. Since I couldn’t actually be a Super Mom (like Super Man), Supermomwannabe I became.

OnceUponaName Says:

Since I was only on for a couple weeks with my other alias, I actually did change mine. 🙂 I love fairytales (and the show) and thought “name” would go well instead of “time”. I guess I should have looked it up first though- it’s a line of children’s products!

MeleriHaf Says:

I studied the beautiful Welsh language in college, and then spent a summer in Wales studying further. There are so many fabulous Welsh names, but many are too hard for Americans to say. Meleri is one of my favorites, but it sounds too much like malaria. Since I can’t use it in real life on my own(currently hypothetical) children, I can use it as an internet handle. And since my real name is a Mel name, I can keep the same nickname.

And Haf is Welsh for summer. It’s pretty and it flows well.

Dearest Says:

I had just discovered the word. XD I wanted something simple, straight-forward and sweet, and I wanted a vocabulary word, no ‘decorations’ like extra letters, or hyphens or something long like a title. There was another user on the site I first used it called Pearl, and I always thought that was amazing. Dearest does the same for me 🙂

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periwinkle Says:

My middle name is Perry and when I was younger, I never really thought it sounded nice as a girls name. I’d been called Perry since birth but at the age of ten I told my parents that I wanted to be called by my first name which is Nora. I Love Nora and I get so many complements on it.
Periwinkle was a nickname my uncle gave me and it changed to
Nora Periwinkle.
And occasionally my Mum will still me that.

~Periwinkle

dancingwithdad Says:

I once got an email that talked about the word GUIDANCE describing it as G = God, U = you, I = the word “I”…God, you and I dance. As in God’s guidance in our life leads us in the dance that is life. I live overseas where email can be watched and sometimes the word “God” can be a trigger. So I started using “dad” instead of “God” in emails. After getting the guidance email, I came up with dancingwithdad…dancing with God.

MidnightSkies Says:

Well my middle name is actually Midnight (yes, seriously). And I am simply love looking out at the sky at night. So MidnightSkies wasn’t that hard to think of. Not very interesting story but hey I have no regrets on my Nameberry alias. I love it so much that I have started to go by my middle name! 🙂

southern.maple Says:

When I made this account, all I knew was that I wanted to incorporate a tree name into my username. All of the tree names I wanted to use were taken, so I figured I would have to add an adjective to the mix.

I went with maple because of stories my grandmother tells from her childhood. She and her dad used to go hiking in the woods together, and they’d always stop underneath a certain maple tree to rest. She would play and he would work on his wood carvings. I chose Southern because, well, I’m Southern and my entire family has been in the South for well over 200 years. Therefore, I’m southern.maple. 🙂

CharacterNamer Says:

I chose it on the fly: I thought I would use Nameberry mostly to name characters, hence CharacterNamer. My other aliases are either Latin, really weird, or Cathalia, a name I made up (Taking Catherine, a name sort of like mine that I like much better, and adding a Greek-sounding, Fantasy-sounding, frilly ending, so I can use Catherine nicknames but sound ethereal)

Lo Says:

My name is Laura and I grew up without a nickname so of course I was envious of those with ones. When I started dating my future husband he dubbed me Lo and he calls me that most of the time. My maiden name began with the letters Co so before we were married I was sometimes even Loco.

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Poppy528 Says:

I assumed I would need to differentiate myself from the multitudes of Poppies on the interwebs (silly name virgin). And while 528 is significant, I’d rather just be Poppy. I think Starling, Tinsley, Lundy, or Sinclair would be cute web names too

s_dimples Says:

My alias is actually my American Sign Language name. I have been signing since high school and at some point they give you a sign unique to you so that you don’t have to spell out your name all the time. So since my name starts with an S and I have dimples – they (my deaf friends) combined the two for my sign name.

CassieCake Says:

My name is Cassie, and I have type one diabetes, so people are always joking that I am extra sweet or that I can’t eat cake (I CAN eat cake)… But anyway, it’s one of the many nicknames invented by my silly co-workers.

Kyri Laina Says:

I used to have an account on http://www.babynamegenie.com and once, when I was playing a BNG, I had to use a link to name B/G twins. The names I chose were Kyri Laina and Laedin Kerridon. I almost was going to use these names for twins in a story I wrote, but then I changed their names. When I made this account, Kyri Laina was and is a favorite of mine, and I wanted to make a Berry name that wasn’t what I usually used for website accounts.

Lucky Lindy Says:

People never seem to get my name right, sometimes I say, “Lindy, ya know like Lucky Lindy or Lindy Hop”… and about 10% of the time they understand what I am talking about.
Sad, sad.
Others times I say “Cindy with a “L” instead of “C”, but that isn’t as catchy, ha!

brynnash Says:

I’m brynnash. My first name is Brynn and my middle name is Ashley (which I really dislike), but I like brynnash. I don’t think I would change my username, even if I could. brynnash is easy to remember and explain.

katybug Says:

My name is Katy, and my freshman year in college was the second year that all students were issued an email address at my university (so yes, I am very old!). The system generated address was firstname.middleinitial.lastname-1@ou.edu, and all of the girls on my dorm floor wanted to change hers to something more personal and fun. I was stumped and asked for advice, and a boy named Bill suggested katybug, “like ladybug,” and I knew it was the one. I adopted ladybugs as my personal symbol too! I joined Nameberry relatively early on, and was thrilled that katybug wasn’t taken yet.

imperioustigerlily Says:

I use imperioustigerlily everywhere. It’s actually a nod to Alice in Wonderland. Garden of talking flowers that sing “All In the Golden Afternoon” in the cartoon, you know? I’m a fantasy author, so Alice is, of course, important to me. imperioustigerlily just fits me really well because I’m really tall (about six feet, give or take an inch), crazy skinny, and pretty confident, which made one of my high school English teachers call me “imperious” one time. So, when I re-read the L.C. book again over a year ago, imperioustigerlily just seemed to fit 🙂

Nyx Says:

Nyx is the Greek goddess of the night. Since night is usually the only time I get to myself (because of my two young sons) to peruse names and such, it just felt like a good fit. I also love that it is short, sweet, quirky and a homophone for nix (nothing).

moxielove Says:

My kitten Moxie had just died when I discovered this site, and I was heartbroken and missed her. I was also 3 months pregnant. Moxie is a name I’ve always loved but was certain that my husband would never go for it so we used it for the cat (she was Lago for a few days before we changed it to Moxie b/c here was a 6 pound kitten eho would run up and swipe at our 60 pound boxer. Lago I think is greek or latin for rabbit, and she hopped like a little rabbit).

My husband later said he WOULD have gone for the name Moxie for our
Ittle girl but I don’t believe him (easy to say when it ain’t gonna happen, right?)

Valkyrie Says:

Despite any negative associations that may come to mind with Valkyrie, I got the name from the female warriors of Norse mythology. I also used it because I wanted a mythological name to reflect my love of myths.

VelvetCyberpunk Says:

In the early 00s I got a fancy computer and it came with a bunch of free AOL. I didn’t like the name they suggested so I tried a bunch of cool names but they were all taken. Then I thought of Velvet Cyberpunk and I liked it. It’s been my online name ever since. It’s also the name of my main character, so yeah, I love the name.

EmiTheDuckling Says:

Well, a lot of people I know call me Emi, which is from my first name Emily. I prefer Emi to Emily because Ive always hated my full name. The Duckling is another nickname from a friend of mine. In the 8th grade I was very weak and once in athletics, we were in the weight room. Well needless to say, I didnt do very well. I started blacking out and I was only lifting 45 pounds. So my friends started calling me weakling, but they decided that was too harsh, so they started calling me duckling!

Fahrenheit Says:

When my friend and I were in school we made up “secret” code names for our many letters we would pass back and forth during the day. My name is Ferrin so I became Fahrenheit, and her name is Kelsie so she became Celsius. =)

arunciblespoon Says:

As someone fascinated with odd words, Lear is my go to for the wacky and wonderful. I like the idea that noone really knows what a runcible spoon is but that everyone has some sort of private image of what it is, which fits my idea of an annoymous screen name – noone knows who you are but they probably have an imagined image of you in their head.

Eos82898 Says:

I just like the name Eos. It’s Greek like me and kinda similar to my real name. It’s my latest internet name. Others have been Drusilla and Paloma. Octopi have always been one of my obsessions, so I like using the number 8.

Poppaea Says:

Since I’ve been reading on Nameberry how classical (meaning ancient Greek and Roman) names are becoming popular, I started thinking about the classical names I like and remembered this one. Poppaea isn’t a true ancient name; it’s a famous character in a Baroque opera, and of course the nickname would be Poppy! I thought it was cute. My real name is Emily, and I love it because I am OLD and got the name when it was highly unusual. Am still adjusting to it having become a cliche. In my heart, I still believe it’s rare and special.

moonkai Says:

“Moonkai” is a moniker I have had since around age 11. One of my best friends grwing up is Hawaiian, and she used to call me “kai”(means ocean) because of my blue eyes, and, as a little girl I was fascinated by the moon and the ocean and always imagined they had an unrequited love affair, so my nickname symbolizes, to me, the eternal mystery and pull of love.

Corny, I know, but I like it.

Haili73 Says:

My real name is Michaila, and my parents spelt it that way to avoid confusion with my dad, Michael Allan. (Can you imagine-Michaela and Michael A.?) But also so that I could be nicknamed Haili. (micHAILa) I just took the Hail and added an i. 73…I’m not sure where that came from. I usually like 96 or 31 or 3 for the number after my name if I need one, but I guess I just liked 73 that day…

GrecianErn Says:

In my sorority (GO XO!) we all had nicknames. My big sister’s name was Marinee, nn Mern. As her little sister, someone shorted Erin to “Ern”. So we were Mern & Ern. 15 years later, we still get called by those nn by our sisters.
So… when I needed a handle on the Messenger programs that popped up back in college, I picked GrecianErn… since Greek life was a huge part of who I was, plus my college nickname. It also reminded me of the Grecian Urns used in the Disney movie “Hercules” which came out around then.
I’ve been using this as my Internet name for 15 years and some people still can’t make the connection, which is fine by me. 🙂

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AquitaineEleanor98 Says:

Love love love history and Eleanor of Aquitaine is my all time favourite queen consort. 🙂 She was amazing and also a great namer! Her children had great names considering she lived 850 years ago. Her kids names included girls named Alix and Matilda and boys named William and Geoffrey. All 4 are on my name list! I hate my own first name but Eleanor is my dream name 🙂 so that’s sorta how I chose. 🙂

Emmeline Says:

thompssn Says:

I missed the thread when it first came out too. My user name story is very boring. I use this name for almost everything. When I started college (many moons ago) that was my school-generated email user name. The first 6 letters of my last name followed by first and middle initial. I got so used to typing it that I just kept using it after I got out of school and even after I got married and changed my last name.

emmie113 Says:

Mine’s extremely boring and I want so desperately to change it. Emmie is my nickname and I added 113 because it is similar to my birthdate and I’ve always used those numbers for usernames, email, everything. So, this is my username for most sights and I kind of created it in a hurry but I wish I could change it!

sparrowfinch Says:

Just ran across this and apparently it’s still fair game to post, so I’ll go ahead. I’ve had a lot of unfortunate internet handles over the year and finally I think I found a good one. Essentially, I just think it’s distinctive, pronounceable, and cool sounding. Just two birds jammed together. I like birds. When in doubt, put a bird on it. 😉 Added bonus is that Finch is the last name of, well, the Finches in To Kill a Mockingbird, which is one of my favorite novels. I’m a big lover of literature and also training to be a lawyer like the head of the Finch clan. 🙂

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zoewithdots Says:

My name is the greek Zoe (which I have always loved). It has a diaeresis (two dots over the ‘e’) that indicates that the last vowel sounds different from the one before it ie. the dots show that Zoe is pronounced Zoh-ee, rather than Zoh.

It’s a big deal to me because without the dots, a lot of people call me Zoe (said like Joe). A lot of people also refuse to spell it with dots, even when written by hand because they’re too lazy. My name has dots. I’m proud of it. Use them.

Star-Fata Says:

I was obsessed with fairies when I was thirteen, and that was the first time I needed an internet alias. Star-Fairy was taken on the website I used, so I looked up a foreign language/english website and tried my luck.
Fata is italian for fairy.
Star Fata is now the name I use pretty much everywhere, it’s pretty, distinctive, and unusual enough that no one else has ever tried to use it.

jem Says:

littlewren Says:

Wren comes from a combination of my alias on another site, Birdie (which had to do with my age-7 obsession with birds) and my middle name, Renee. Renee + Birdie = Wren.
And the “little” is because I’m a bit short. Fourteen and 5′ 1-3/8″. And pants are always way too long on me, which probably came to mind because I’d just been checking my measurements when I made this.
So littlewren.

DinahElsie Says:

I loved the names Dinah and Elsie but my husband wouldn’t let me use them on future children. So we named our first cat Dinah Elisabeth and I call her Dinah Elsie 🙂 so that is my username, my real name has become incredibly common recently, my name is Zoe. Although I was the only Zoe growing up.

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eoxima Says:

The ‘e’ in eoxima is from my name, Eryn. I used to use ‘e0x’ a lot on just random sites but I didn’t want any numbers, so at first it was just ‘eox’. That looked incomplete so, as a spur of the moment thing, I added ‘ima’ and ‘eoxima’ was born.

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Theodora_Phoenix Says:

Here is the truth behind my username… it’s not my name at all! It’s a combo of two favorites of mine, Theodora and Phoenix. At the time, I thought it sounded like the title of a certain Harry Potter book, buy I think I may have mot chosen the right one. No one has commented on it, so maybe the resemblence was all in my head.

lleahdoll Says:

My first name is Leah. I really only had two nicknames growing up (Leah’s so short you can’t really shorten it much more… which I always hated), one of them which is Leah Doll. So, I started using it as a username. I added the extra “L” at the beginning to make it more unique so I wouldn’t have the same username as someone or run into not being able to use it when making a new account on a website. So far, so good!

mountainsky Says:

I had never been farther west than Chicago, and in my early 20’s I first visited the Rockies. There is something about being a mile (or more) in elevation where it feels like you are so close to the clouds and you might just touch the sky. My name is homage to that feeling.

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iwillpraise Says:

Since I was little, I’ve loved to sing and have found a way to share my passion publicly as often as I could; so much so that one of the ladies at church (who has since passed, but was like a grandma to me) lovingly referred to me as “our little songbird” for many years… I didn’t realize until recently, but this very name has solidified my gravitation towards all things bird: from decor accents to the discovery of real bird nests/eggs, all the way to my love of bird names! … although I’m sure my mom’s love of nature has lots to do with it too! I live 8 hrs away from my parents, and when I enjoy nature, it makes me feel close to them. She and my dad also sing to the Lord of all Creation 🙂

Today I lead worship at my church. I am totally convinced that “praising” is a lifestyle anyone can choose regardless of their situation; when I praise I am happy! praising changes everything, when I am unhappy! Originally, this idea came from Jesus’ words from Luke 19:40 “And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.” These days, I use b4rockscryout and iwillpraise interchangeably 🙂

CrazycatMama Says:

sablemae98 Says:

There’s this number system thing called numerology, it’s a form of divination similar to astrology. I was learning it a while back and my name’s numbers are 3/1/5. So I chose a name that had the same number sequence. (S A B L E = 1+1+2+3+5 = 12 -> 1+2 = 3) I ended up keeping the middle (Mae) and chose Everett (5+4+5+9+5+2+2) for my last.